Often I am asked about how to find novels that can be downloaded to mobile devices. The challenge with access to any literature is copyright. Here are some ways to help your students who learn best through hearing stories. These student may struggle to understand a chapter they’ve read, but can articulate full understanding if…
Month: November 2011
Blogging Tips for Communication and Organization
Sometimes a bit of practical tips are helpful to add to your toolbox of blogging ‘know-how’. So here we are… Custom Menus: Using custom menus provides another layer of organization not found in ‘categories’. For example, if you wish to have a list of your students located in a specific category, you can use the Custom…
Digging Deeper – How to Introduce Blog Commenting
How to Develop Blog Writing: Brainstorm Session Sometimes our questions may be “how do we start our classes blogging past the basics?”. Here is one way that may help to introduce the students to the idea of commenting. (We did this at our recent SCIT gathering.) This starts in the classroom with good questions. Record…
Cultivating Conversation – Spoken Ink
Moving from the last post on Reimagining Conversation, I wanted to dig deeper into the importance of oral language as foundational to literacy development. We are creatures of connection and we use language to communicate our needs, ideas, feelings and discoveries. The abilities to express ourselves grow over time and practice…lots of practice. Yes, I know…
Reimagine the Conversations
Many of you have dipped your toes into cyberspace by launching your blogs, whether they are class blogs, specialty group blogs or professional blogs. They all have something in common – a place to gather, connect and have conversation. The key factor being the conversation or communication. The flexibility of the tool is that it allows for…